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• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... are now primarily research and TA-ing. Being a graduate TA is a new role ... is actually very good, starting at Massachusetts minimum wage of $14

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  dorm is renovated. The class, now labelled STS.051, will be offered this ... major or minor is not at all necessary to enjoy this class. I am to my ... years, there is so much interesting stuff to discover. Interviewing cruft

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Should’ve Been Working When I Drew These ✨but i wasn't✨

  

  ="aligncenter" width="432"] oh my god is one of its arms coming OUT of its pecs?? ok well

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  left 70.77% of applicants, or 10,673 applicants, to deferral. This is ... anywhere. Ask anyone, MIT is MIT because of the people. This is true. But ... classmates. The transition to college is hard. There's no need to rush it. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  was mainly just that MIT is cold. And drizzly.  Which was then followed by “I have never seen anywhere as crowded as Flour is, and also these sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  ’ll tell you I knit. Stitching things as my worldview unravels is perhaps ... Intensive in the Major (CI-M) is a graduation requirement for all majors, usually taken junior or senior year. For course 2, 2.671 is one of them then

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  the future,[/annotation] the world is not yet "back to normal ... unavailability of testing due to the pandemic, we think it is important to maintain ... requiring the SAT/ACT once it is possible for everyone to take them safely

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it's about depression. ac newman's lyrics hit deep, with lines like "so you crumbled, you doubled your dosage / you wanna go, said the inhibitor blocking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  up applying to Math in Moscow, which is usually held in-person in ... less than ten students. My abstract algebra course is actually a reading ... : without financial aid, MIT tuition for one semester is $26,000+ USD for a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  writing to comedy and, uh, culinary, which is a testament to the interesting ... people when your interaction is consigned to a closed Zoom room. Over the ... show! Since Yiming is currently living in China, the team had to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  us would eat it. We eat out rarely, and Indian and Asian food is ... think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then ... my apartment is toasty even though it’s only me at home right now, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  've taken so far, it is swim class that has made me feel the worse about ... be because of the sertraline. or both, or neither, and the thing is ... , and that the theme is of having my trust being broken. that all of them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I ... semester. In some ways, MIT is close. In other ways it feels distant, like a ... Arizona rivers, there is actual water. In Cambridge the heat doesn’t trap

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  ’s my body is a cage is, i think, supposed to be a song about insecurity. it opens my body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one i ... the person is held back, partly, by their own mind. the first verse says

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  in common is a feeling of disappointment. So many voices – peers ... community to be a smooth journey. The process is inherently one that requires ... of campus that make you happy. If you feel like MIT is too hard to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  ’t going anywhere. this is my third summer in boston, because i was here the ... weeks. but the thing about warmth is that memory only delivers this torn ... is that i don’t really remember things if i don’t write it up, i guess

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  'm trying to prepare him for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, which is ... UROP/job. It also is a great means of keeping in touch with the language ... Conner, is closing for renovations soon, and I want to help maintain the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  writing is like a probability distribution, and writing more gives better ... .) Besides, a work is never truly completed. You can always edit blog posts, or ... ’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  This post is long overdue. These are not the circumstances I had ... break I told you, this post is long overdue. Its origins date back to ... appropriate. That’s how overdue this post is!"]snow falling

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT ... grew up in Valenzuela City. Its longest and busiest road is Mac ... , so when I think of Valenzuela, I imagine MacArthur. A road that is, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020